Resources

On-Demand Webinar

How to Control Your Cloud Deployment

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn why cloud deployments are more expensive than expected, what is contributing tot he high cost of cloud and how to gain control and optimize your cloud deployment.
Blog

How to Go from Simple to Strategic Capacity Management

  Capacity Management Strategies If IT was like a restaurant…then capacity management should be like the restaurant manager (aka Maître D’). Unfortunately, too many organizations are using capacity management as the clean-up department. When something goes wrong, capacity management fixes it. And while that used to work, that’s not the best practice...
Guide

DevOps Development: Keeping the Lights On

Overview: The DevOps methodology embodies two core philosophies: decreasing the lead time of software deployment and the automation of delivery and testing. DevOps emerged as a practical response to the agile development movement, in contrast with traditional, phase-based or “waterfall” development, which is inefficient and labor-intensive. Traditional methods should be phased out, and companies...
Blog

Capacity Planning

Have you ever experienced an online service outage? It’s like losing half your physical locations without any warning. Downtime is a huge problem. It stops your revenue stream. It compromises customer loyalty. It damages your brand’s reputation. And it wastes hours and IT resources to fix the problem—when it shouldn’t have been a problem to begin with. Isn’t it about time you prevented downtime?...
Blog

How DR Compliance Requirements Impact HA Decisions

Disaster recovery requirements are part of the geographic and industry regulations that affect our organizations. Having the right solutions in place can help to avoid penalties and make audits go smoothly. Read on to create a complete compliance toolkit.
Article

Secret Capabilities of Robot Schedule Revealed

We recently surveyed our Robot Schedule technical support group for “ah ha!” moments that they’ve helped customers realize over the past few years. These tips from our tech gurus have helped customers automate jobs that needed to check a data area before running, track non-Robot jobs for reporting purposes, and check the status of a file before running a job.
Article

What Makes the Good Morning Report So Good?

There is nothing like waking up to find the latest news delivered right to your doorstep, waiting for you on the printer, or sent to you electronically. For years, our customers have started their days reading the Good Morning report from Robot Schedule.
Guide

Dashboards Don't Work (Unless You Have a Metrics Management Strategy)

Tech has had a tremendous impact on the way today’s businesses seek continued growth and improvement. No matter what business they are in, executives everywhere are investing in technology that improves their business processes, gets them ahead of the competition and widens their margins. Ultimately, the return on that investment is determined by how well technology supports a business’ ability to...
On-Demand Webinar

Top Tips to Increase Programmer Productivity

You don’t need to be reminded that your time is valuable. Redundant processes, fumbling between programs, struggling to set up and test time-sensitive apps all require time that you could be spending in much more productive ways. In this session, we’ll show you how Abstract helps you eliminate busy work and streamline the development process. We’ll also explore how Anydate allows user jobs or...
On-Demand Webinar

Streamline Your Development Process with Abstract

Your time is limited. You can’t spend it on redundant processes, fumbling between programs, or struggling to cross-reference your development environment. Your development staff could be spending their time being much more productive. All development projects, large or small, require control: Control of program changes Control of developer time Control of processes through use of flowcharts...